20131006奥巴马电视演讲原文.doc

Good morning, everybody.? Earlier this week, the Republican House of Representatives chose to shut down a government they don’t like over a health care law that they don’t like.? And I’ve talked a lot about the real-world consequences of this shutdown in recent days – the services disrupted; the benefits delayed; the public servants kicked off the job without pay.?But today, I want to let the Americans dealing with those real-world consequences have their say.? And these are just a few of the many heartbreaking letters I’ve gotten from them in the past couple weeks – including more than 30,000 over the past few days.?Kelly Mumper lives in rural Alabama.? She works in early education, and has three kids of her own in the Marines【马里讷】.? Here’s what she wrote to me on Wednesday.?“Our Head Start agency…was forced to stop providing services on October 1st for over 770 children, and 175 staff were furloughed【准……休假】.? I am extremely concerned for the welfare of these children.? There are parents who work and who attend school.? Where are they leaving their children…is it a safe environment…are [they] getting the food that they receive at their Head Start program?”?On the day Julia Pruden’s application to buy a home for her and her special needs children was approved by the USDA’s rural development direct loan program, she wrote me from Minot, North Dakota.?“We put in an offer to purchase a home this weekend, and it was accepted…if funding does not go through, our chances of the American Dream [are] down the drain…We have worked really hard to get our credit to be acceptable to purchase a home…if it weren’t for the direct lending program provided by the USDA, we would not qualify to buy the home we found.”?These are just two of the many letters I’ve received from people who work hard; try to make ends meet; try to do right by their families.? They’re military or military spouses【配偶】 who’ve seen commissaries【代表】 closed on their bases.? They’re veterans worried th